Stock-car



(No Model.)

G. GROSSMAN.

STOCK GAR. No. 340,946. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE GROSSMAN, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCK-CA R.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 340,946, dated April 2'7, 1886.

Application filed February 4, 1886. Serial No. 190,764. (No model.)

- stock-cars in which the stalls are formed by movable sides, which extend but partially across the car.

The objects of my improvements are, first, to permit any animal, regardless of its position in the car, to be unloaded, and, second, to facilitate the watering of the stock. This arrangement is an improvement on an invention of mine for which an application for Letters Patent was filed in the United States Patent Oflice September 7, 1885, and is constructed as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective of such a portion of the interior of a car as is necessary for showing my device. Fig. 2 is a side view of the arrangement of the trough at the door, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same.

It is found that in rigidly securing the sides A of the stalls the animal is liable to be scratched or rubbed when thrown against them by the jarring of the car, and in order to obviate this difliculty I secure the swinging end a of the stall by a chain, B, connecting it with the inner side, I), of the manger, or by means of a rod, G, hinged to either the end of the stall-partition or the side of the manger and connected by a hook and staple with the other. One end of either the chain or rod is made detachable, to enable the stalls to be folded against the side of the car and any animal to pass the one in front of the other. The other end of the stall-partition being hinged to the side D of the car, this arrangement permits the partition to give when the animal is thrown against it.

For the greater convenience in closing the 5 stall and permitting the passage of the animal through the door of the car, the partitions E at that point are divided into sections e e, hinged together so as to fold vertically the one upon the other when the said partitions or a part thereof are turned back toward the side of the car.

That the manger F may be extended along as much of the length of the car as possible, an end, j, which, whenin place, extends across the door of the car, is hinged to the other part of the manger F in such manner that when the car-entrance is to be used it can be folded up and over the body of said manger, as shown in Fig. 2, and replaced after the car is closed.

A vertically-adj ustable water-pipe and kiclcing-beam, G, has a flexible base, H, attached thereto, by means of which water from the said pipe is conveyed to the watertroughs.

I do not confine myself to the particular manner of connecting the swinging end of the stall with the side of the manger or of hinging the folding part of the manger as shown, as it is obvious that these points can be accomplished in various ways and at the same time be within the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a stock-car having partitions hinged to the side and extending but partially across said car when opened to form stalls, of flexible connections between the top of the swinging ends of said partitions and the feed-trough or manger, whereby the said partitions are held open and at the same time prevent any animal which has freed itself from its halter from passing into an adjoining stall, substantially as specified.

GEO. GROSSMAN. 

